Seminar Schedule
March 17 -21, 2008
All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.
MONDAY, March 17, 2008
VIGRE – Algebraic Geometry
2:15pm, Room 222
Topology
2:30-3:30, Room 303
No Meeting this week
Algebra
2:30pm, Room 410
No Meeting this week
Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Tea, Cookies
TUESDAY, March 18, 2008
VIGRE - Graduate Student Seminar
2:00pm, Room 304
Speaker: Irfan Bagci, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Lie Algebras, Lie Superalgebras and Cohomology
Abstract: We will start with Lie algebras and their basic properties with lots of examples. After that we will discuss Lie superalgebras with examples and the classification of simple finite dimensional Lie superalgebras over the complex numbers given by V. Kac. Lastly I will briefly introduce relative cohomology for Lie superalgebras and present some of the results of research I am doing. The presentation will be aimed at the audience with no background in representation theory and as it can be understood from the abstract many examples will be provided.
Mathematical Physics
3:30pm, Room 303
Speaker: Justin Manning, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Differentiability of the pressure function in ergodic theory
WEDNESDAY, March 19, 2008
Algebraic Geometry
2:30pm, Room 410
No meeting this week
Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Tea, Cookies
Number Theory
3:30pm, Room 304
No meeting this week
THURSDAY, March 20, 2008
VIGRE – Tropical Geometry
2:00pm, Room 304
VIGRE – Circle Packing
2:00pm, Room 326
VIGRE – Number Theory
3:30pm, Room 303
FRIDAY, March 21, 2008
VIGRE-Algebra
2:30pm, Room 322
Applied Math
2:30pm, Room 302
Speaker: Alexander Petukhov, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Hausdorff metric of battle fields.
Abstract: Hausdorff metric is widely used in the computer graphics for approximation (measuring the closeness) of smooth surfaces. At the same time, the Hausdorff metric is a very natural to measure the distance between discontinuous functions or functions with low smoothness. Such representation is currently very actual for many applied problems. Say, for the representation of mountain (urban) landscape is very important in 3D navigators currently used for military applications, especially for helicopters and unmanned planes. The Hausdorff distance is essentially non-linear and cannot be generated by any norm. This fact was an obstacle for theoretical studies and development of the approximation methods. We will discuss how this obstacle can be overcome. In particular, we give criteria for the Hausdorff convergence of convolution on (quasi)Banach spaces.
Geometry
2:30pm, Room 410
Speaker: Gordana Stojanovic, Georgia Tech
Title of talk: TBA
Abstract: TBA